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` No. 283,386. Patented Aug. 2l, 1883.

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SPECLIIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 283,386, dated August 21, 1883. ppneauon and .April 17, 1883. (no meer) To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, GERTRUDE N. FLETCHER, of the city of Indianapolis, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Library-Ilables, of which the following is a specification.

. The object of my said invention is primarily to provide a receptacle for large books, Sie.,

Which Will also furnish a convenient support out; Fig. 3, a central vertical section on the dotted line e e in Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a view similar to va portion of Fig. 3, but onan enlargedv scale; Fig. 5, a detail horizontal section on the dotted line y g) Fig. 6, a similar vieur on the dotted line rv, and Fig. 7 a section through the hinge of the door (when said door is closed, as shown in Fig. l) at the point indicated by the dotted line w w in Fig. 5.

In said l drawings, the portions marked A represent the body of the table, B the supports for the shelves when the latter are drawn out, and C said shelves.

The table A is composed, essentially, of a box-like body supported by legs AJ, and provided with a door, A2, at one end, said door being hung with hinges 0,. (See Fig. 7.) Inside the bon-like portion are slides or supports ai for the shelves G, and said slides are preferably provided with anti-friction trucks ai, as shown.

The supports B are strips attached to the lower part of the box-like portion of the table and adapted to be drawn out to support the shelves, as shown in Fig. 3, or to be pushed in beneath said shelves. Each is provided with a leg, B, which is preferably formed by being vsavved from the center of the support, and is pivoted thereto by a pivot-hinge, o. Said legs are adapted to be folded up into the body of said supports, and therefore occupy no eX- tra space when said supports are pushed into `'together by hinges c.

said supports are pushed in when closing the table after use.

The shelves C rest and slide on the slides c2, or the anti-friciion rollers c. When the latter are provided. They are preferably provided with fronts similar to drawer-fronts, as shown, on which are preferably drawer-pulls c. Each is adapted tov incline downwardly when pulled out to rest on the supports B, and a desirable means of accomplishing this is to construct each shelf in two parts and secure the parts The small rear portion which remains inthe table can then remain horizontal, while the main portion is permitted to assume an inclined position, as shown most plainly in Fig. 3. Stop-pins el are inserted 1n the rear portions of these shelves and enter grooves a* in the sides of the table. Then the shelves are pulled forward, these stop-pins come in contact with the forward ends of said grooves, and said shelves are thus prevented from being pulled entirely out.

The operation oi my saidinvention may be 'recapitulated as follows: The books being in place on the shelves, and thetable closedup, as in Fig. l, and it being desired to use or display said books, the door A2 is first unlocked and swung down into open position, the supports B are then drawn out, and the legs dropped down, and finally the shelf contain` ing the book which it is desired to use is pulled out and dropped down until it rests on the supports, as shown most plainly in Fig. 3, the position of the book on the shelf being indicated by dotted lines.

Having thus fully described my said invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a library-table, the combination of the box-like body, a series of sliding shelves therein, and a separate sliding support for said shelves upon which either when drawn out will rest, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a library-table, of

the box-like Vbody A, the series of sliding` shelves C, and the sliding support B, substantially as shown and specified.

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. 8. The combination, in a library-tame, of I Support B, and the several sliding shelves C, the box-like body A, provided with a door, A2, eaoh of said shelves being hinged or pivoted the series of sliding shelves C, and a single at or near its rear end, and thus adapted to 15 Sliding support, B, having leg B', wherebyA drop down and rest upon said Support, sub- 5 anyone of said shelves may be supported, snbl stantially as s et forth.

stantially as set forth. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my 4. The combination, in a library-table, of hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, this the body A, having lege A', door A2, and slides 11th day of April, A. D. 18533.

a2, the shelves C, having handles c, and hinges GERTRUDE N. FLETCHER. [L s,] 1o c', and the sliding support B, having hinged In presence ofleg B', substantially as set forth. C. BRADFORD,

5. The combination of the table, the sliding E. -W BRADFORD. 

